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Canadice Lake

Bill Blevins — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:25:22 +0000

Canadice Lake, originally uploaded by sailorbill.

Pre-season bass fishing from my Native Watercraft Multisport 14.5 Propel kayak last weekend on Canadice Lake in Western New York out on a day-trip with several guys who are in the WNYKFA – Western New York Kayak Fishing Association.

Pike, Deep Pond at Mendon Ponds Park

Bill Blevins — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:22:15 +0000

Pike, Deep Pond at Mendon Ponds Park, originally uploaded by sailorbill.

I went fishing with a bunch of guys who fish together in a group called the Western New York Kayak Fishing Association (WNYKFA) today. I caught one nice pike on a crank bait in Deep Pond. It wasn’t very cold but it was windy. No bass in my boat today. One other guy we were fishing with landed a smallmouth out in the middle of Hundred Acre Pond.

Native Watercraft Ultimate 14.5 Propel

Bill Blevins — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:26 +0000

Native Watercraft Ultimate 14.5 Propel

My new Native Watercraft Ultimate 14.5 Propel Kayak (or is it a canoe?). It is supposed to be in the 60′s this weekend. I can’t wait to wet a fly line from this boat!

Grace

Bill Blevins — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:34:06 +0000

Grace, originally uploaded by sailorbill.

Blue line on 42″ LG plasma HGTV

Bill Blevins — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:31:46 +0000

The mostly persistent thin blue line on my 5-yr-old LG plasma TV.

Well, I’m going to try and repair my LG Plasma HGTV. The model number of my LG Plasma is DU-42PX12X.

Here’s the story…

A few weeks ago, my 42″ LG Plasma HGTV began to occasionally display a thin blue line on the right side of the screen. It would appear for a while, then disappear for a while. We are now going on about 5 weeks and it is always on the screen now. It is about 1 inch wide and is about 6 inches from the right side of the screen.

Of course, the first thing one does these days when something like this happens is to hit Google.

Apparently, after reading only a few blogs, I have been lucky. Many LG TV’s purchased in 2004-2005 had this problem after only a couple of years and most of the blog posts are from a couple of years ago.

I got away without the problem for 5 years.

After checking out only a few Google results, I landed on a blog post that had very detailed instructions on how to fix the problem. The comments on the post were lengthy and most people who followed the instructions sucessfully fixed their TVs.

So, this morning, I ordered a LG Electronics / Zenith “Hand Insert PCB Assembly” – part number 6871QCH038C from partstore.com. The part should be here by next weekend.

I’ll update this post when it arrives and let everyone know the outcome.

UPDATE: Transplant surgery on the 42″ LG Plasma HGTV was a success, fixing the 1″ blue line running down the right side of the screen.

Tucker in the snow

Bill Blevins — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:13:05 +0000

Tucker in the snow, originally uploaded by sailorbill.

TWA at JFK

Bill Blevins — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:12:44 +0000

TWA at JFK, originally uploaded by sailorbill.

Searching for Steelheads

Bill Blevins — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:49:18 +0000

Searching for Steelheads, on Irondequoit Creek in Penfield, NY on 23 January 2010.

2009 / 2010 New York Snow Derby (1/4/2010 update)

Bill Blevins — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:46:36 +0000

Rochester Snow Derby totals as of 1/4/2010, originally uploaded by sailorbill.

Here are the Rochester Snow Derby totals as of 1/4/2010 comparing the season’s snowfall levels for Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester and Albany, New York. The local TV station used to have a link to this on their site which they continually updated but I can’t seem to find it at the moment. http://GoldenSnowball.com/ seems to be updated every day. The numbers are slightly different from the photo I took of the TV screen last night.

The Blevins Family – Thanksgiving 2009

Bill Blevins — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:13:46 +0000

Blevins Family Thanksgiving 2009, uploaded to Flickr by SailorBill.